Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-11-26
STATE UNIVERSITY.
Senator Stewart Makes a Number of
Suggestions Worthy of Careful
COnsi deratiOn.

Senator Stewart Makes a Number of
Suggestions Worthy of Careful
Consideration.
"Why is it that the people of Reno do not
stand in and help build up the State Unlver-
sity?" asked Senator Stewart Saturday night
of Gazette reporter.
"What more would you have the people
of Reno do than they have done?" queried
the reporter.
"What more would have them do2 Well,
in the first place would have them open
public thoroughfare leading to the Universe
ty grounds. The only way you can get
there now with conveyance is through
private lane that can be closed to travel any
time its owner says the word; and Winter
will soon be here and there is not board or
any other kind of decent sidewalk between
the town and the grounds of the institution"
"rhat, l believe, is true" answered the
reporter. "But when the matter is properly
brought before the Board of County Com
missoners they will no doubt give it their
attention and subserve the best interests Of
the institution so far as they can legally do
SO. What else would you suggest in order
to make the University the success it ought
to be2"
"There are two things that must be done
before the institution will be generally pat
ronized by parents havings sons and daugh
tiers to educate in the higher branches. The
first is, do away with the graveyard along
side of the University. The idea that PEG
pie will send their sons and daughters to an
institution where they will be subjected to
the poisonous gases that constantly arise
from burial ground is ridiculous. l GER
Go to the health Office of any city and in
quire about the health of any settlements
adjacent to graveyards and cemeteries and
5 you will find the death rate there is greatly
in excess of what it is elsewhere. Inquire
in TO the causes of these deaths and you will
find that they are mostly fever, dyptheria
: and other diseases that arise from foul gases.
Most any physician will tell you, if you ask
him, that the burial ground causes them. y
"What would you suggest as a remedy for
the graveyard alongside of the University2''
"Let the people stop burying their dead
there. If your town grows it will be a mat
: ter Of only few years until all those bodies
will have 10 be raised and buried elsewhere
Why the authorities ever allowed the grave
yards there, where the gases could be wait
ed over the town, is more than | can und er
stand, and to build a State University ad
joining such grounds is worse still. | would
sungest that steps be taken, and at once, tc
; have the remains removed to grounds farther
out of town, and that the State buy the
, graveyard and make it a part OF the Univer
sty grounds. More land is required any
how for the institution if we would have il
attain the standing it should, a State in
e stitution, have"
81 would also suggest that some measure
be adopted TO furnish means to build wing
or annexes to the present University build
ing, the same to be used for the aecommoda
= ton of students who come from other part,
of the State. Parents who send their SON.
and daughters away to school prefer to have
them looked after by some competent anc
interested person rather than to put them in
boarding house or even in private family
where they feel no restraints upon them
Let some live man take hold of the matte
and present it promptly to some of th'
moneyed men in the State. am sure tha
a number of them would put up the coli
and wait until the Legislature meets to bC
reimbursed"
''No! the people of the State cannot ex
pect me to get any help from Congress TO
the institution until they remedy lot Of th'
bunging work that has been done. Wher
they step in and accomplish their part they
will find me ready and willing to do mine
When present a claim | want one that Ill
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